Microphone not picking up my voice?

[flyingcanadian]

I was skyping with a friend today and randomly my microphone stopped working. They can still hear me typing and moving around, but cannot hear me talking. I tried blowing on the area where the microphone is, and also used a hairdryer to see if there was any dust suck, but no luck. Any ideas on what could be causing the problem?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Check System Preferences > Sound > Input or OPTION/Alt click the sound/volume icon in the Menu Bar and tell us, what is listed and checked as Input Device.

 

[flyingcanadian]

The internal microphone is the input device. It's strange though, i'm looking at the input level bar in the sound settings and it's picking up the noise i make as i type or watch a video, but when i try speak it just doesn't seem to recognise it.

Thanks for trying to help!

 

[simsaladimbamba]

What exact Mac OS X version do you use on what exact MacBook Air model? A System Information "About This Mac" (CMD+I) screenshot should suffice.

 

[flyingcanadian]

Here it is!

Thanks again